Month: January 2018
On Being Alone
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We need to be alone because life among other people unfolds too quickly. The pace is relentless: the jokes, the insights, the excitements. There can sometimes be enough in five minutes of social life to take up an hour of analysis. – The Need to Be Alone How much thinking time do you have in…
The Worst Thing You’ve Done
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The whole interview was great, but this minute as Catherine Hoke talks about being known first for the worst thing you’ve done. I’m still thinking about it an hour later. Stop and think about the worst thing you’ve done. That time you failed or fought or … Who knows. I’d be in jail. I’m blessed…
Make Everyone Happy
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Social media makes it easy to be both dissatisfied and to have a mission at the same time: Make everyone happy. – Never smooth enough — a modern addiction Timely as I’ve been doing a bit of this lately. Trying to make people that don’t matter happy. Going to stop.
Are You Interested In Documenting
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Another good one today on Medium, this time about documenting the struggles we have on the way to success. Do you read more people that talk about the struggles or show off success all the time? One is a highlight reel you can’t ever compare your real life to. The other is someone on the…
Creating Running and Writing
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Ryan Holiday has a nice post on writing and running. I write and I run. I code and I run. Sometimes I run then code and run again. There is just something about being out there under your own power with a pair of shoes and some water that frees the mind for me. What do…
The 2017 Goodreads Challenge shows so much failure
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I took that screenshot a few weeks before the end of 2017. I checked in again Jan 31 and while a few more people were done, most hadn’t finished. It’s sad there there are so many people that haven’t done their challenges. People set a goal with enthusiasm and envisioned themselves as the types of…
Minimalist Bullet Journal
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I love my Bullet Journal and I’ll be writing about it a bunch in February. I’ll be covering my whole personal productivity and task management workflow in fact. Anyway, this is a great video looking at a fairly minimal Bullet Journal. One without a whole bunch of art all over that I’ll never come close…
Fighter Pilots, Decision Making and The OODA Loop
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I’m going to harp on the only skill that a freelancer needs that will stay useful is good decision making. To that end, you need to go read this excellence article on the OODA loop at Farnam Street. I need to write about this at length to make sure that I’ve solidified my learning on…
Take Responsibility for Hard Problems
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We all love to take responsibility for success and happiness. Hell, we often fight over who gets to be responsible for success and happiness. But taking responsibility for problems is far more important, because that’s where real learning comes from. That’s where the real-life improvement comes from. To simply blame others is only to hurt…
How I Use NO To Win More Work
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In late 2017 I spoke at the WooCommerce Developers Conference and now I’ve written a blog post for them on the same ideas. It even includes a video of the talk, which I haven’t watched again because it always feels painful to watch myself talk.
